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2/20/2013

2013 - The Stories (Adapted Screenplay)

In a race against time, a crew of art historians and museum
curators unite to recover renown works of art stolen by Nazis
before Hitler destroys them

Jason Reitman (Labor Day)

Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded,
fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict,
the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options
become increasingly limited.

Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke(Before
Midnight)

We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two
decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound
for Vienna.

Tracy Letts (August : Osage County)

The Weston family overcomes certain differences when their
alcoholic patriarch goes missing.

Steve McQueen & John Ridley(Twelve
Years a Slave)

A man living in New York during the mid-1800s is kidnapped and
sold into slavery in the deep south.

Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street)

A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large
securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street,
corporate banking world and mob infiltration.

Josh Singer (The Fifth Estate)

A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel
Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to
an irreparable rift between the two friends.

Frank Cottrell Boyce & Andy Paterson (The Railway
Man)

A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out
to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.

Baz Luhrmann & Craig Pearce (The Great Gatsby)

Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds
himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of
his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle,
becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy

A 12-year-old cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in
Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother
and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive
an award at the Smithsonian Institute.

Scott Neustadter (The Spectacular Now)

Sutter Keely (Miles Teller) lives in the now. It’s a good
place for him. A high school senior, charming and self-possessed,
he’s the life of the party, loves his job at a men’s clothing
store, and has no plans for the future. A budding alcoholic, he’s
never far from his supersized, whisky-fortified thirst-master cup.
But after being dumped by his girlfriend, Sutter gets drunk and
wakes up on a lawn with Aimee Finicky (Shailene Woodley) hovering
over him. She’s different: the “nice girl” who reads science
fiction and doesn’t have a boyfriend. While Amy has dreams of a
future, Sutter lives in the impressive delusion of a spectacular
now, yet somehow, they're drawn together.

Steve Coogan & Jeff Pope (Philomena)

A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her
decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

Lee Daniels & Danny Strong (The Butler)

A White House butler served eight American Presidents over the
course of three decades.

Christopher Kyle (Serena)

In Depression-era North Carolina, the future of George
Pemberton's timber empire becomes complicated when it is learned
that his wife, Serena, cannot bear children.

Roman Polanski (Venus in Fur)

An actress attempts to convince a director how she's perfect for
a role in his upcoming production.

Paul Harris Boardman & Scott Derrickson (Devil's
Knot)

The savage murders of three young children
sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing
the kids as part of a satanic ritual.

Charlie Stratton (Theresa Raquin)

Therese and her lover Laurent murder Camille, Therese's husband.
After marrying, the couple are visited by Camille's ghost, slowly
turning their love for one another into an all-consuming hatred.

Akiva Goldsman (Winter's Tale)

A fantasy story set in 19th Century and present-day Manhattan
and revolves around a thief, a dying girl, and a flying white
horse.

After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of
terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a
manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass
destruction.

Matthew Michael Carnahan (World War Z)

A U.N. employee is racing against time and fate, as he travels
the world trying to stop the outbreak of a deadly Zombie pandemic.

Simon Beaufoy & Michael Arndt (The Hunger Games :
Catching Fire)

Katniss and Peeta's victory is cut short as the Quarter Quell
puts them back into the Hunger Games for the second time.

Mark Protosevich (Oldboy)

After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 20 years, an
advertising executive is released, only to find that he must find
his captor in 5 days.

Roberto Aquirre-Sacasa (Carrie)

A sheltered high school girl unleashes her newly developed
telekinetic powers after she is pushed too far by her peers.

Andrew Bovell (A Most Wanted Man)

A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets
caught up in the international war on terror.

Josh Fagin (The First)

The life story of silent filmstar
Mary Pickford, who co-founded the movie studio United Artists in
1919. Based on Eileen Whitfield's biography, "Pickford: The
Woman Who Made Hollywood."

Carroll Cartwright & Nancy Doyne (What Maisie Knew)

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her
parents' bitter divorce.

Julian Fellowes (The Chaperone)

Amid the backdrop of the tumultuous times of the early 1920s,
the life of a Kansas woman is forever changed when she chaperones a
beautiful and talented 15 year-old dancer named Louise Brooks to
New York for the summer. One of them is eager to fulfill her
destiny of silent film stardom; the other hopes to unearth the
mysteries of her past.

Jennifer Lee & Shane Morris (Frozen)

A mountain climber and a young girl named Anna
journey through snowy peaks and dangerous cliffs to find the
legendary Snow Queen and end the perpetual winter prophecy that has
fallen over their kingdom.

Darren Aronofsky,
John Logan & Ari Handel (Noah)

The Biblical Noah suffers visions of an apocalyptic
deluge, and takes measures to protect his family from the coming
flood.

Terence Davies (A
Quiet Passion)

The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her
early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive,
unrecognized artist.